Britaine And so William the Conqueror for the good successe he likewise had in Scotland is recorded King of all Britaine and Henry the second surnamed Curtmantle is also for like successe recorded King of all Britaine And if they be renowned and honoured with name and stile of Britaine which by rightfull descent or by conquest were inheritours but to one part only though by their fortunes in war they also claimed the other what rightfull title must we then acknowledge most justly now to belong to his most excellent Majesty in the imperiall crowne of both who by lineall descent inheriteth both Here I wish I had as many eyes as Argos to looke into their devises who seeke to divide England from Scotland and Scotland from England renouncing the name of great Britaine lest joyned in one they might as the forenamed stars appeare together shine together and bring joy together I would then not spare to lay open as Cneius Flavius did reveal to the world the tricks and misteries of Lawyers of that time and therefore was said to put out their eyes and to cut their purses how also these Adamants hinder the naturall power and vertue of the Load-stone whom I call Adamants aswell for repugnant qualities as that they be truly Adamants even Sons of Adam practising rather in disobedience dissention and ruine of all to lay hands upon that is forbidden then to draw the Iron nay golden chaine of linkes of love in obedience to the King and for common peace and preservation of men But herein such imitate the devise of Q. Fabius Labeo seeking to have the ship of common weale divided in parts as when by compact of league with Antiochus he ought to receive halfe part of Antiochus ships cut them all in the middest craftily so to defraud Antiochus of his whole Navy or else imitate they Cyrus dividing great Rivers into many little Brookes till they be not only passable but even dryed up for so these seek to stay the maine and mighty Streame of great Britaine by dividing it and in dividing to make it of sundry kindes unlike it selfe Such dividing into parts is disjoyning of the parts by disjoyning dismembring and by dismembring spoiling making the stone Scyros which whole and firmely compacted doth swim and floate above the waters to sinke and be drowned because it is divided But our two famous kingdomes with all their provinces shires and countries united into the name of great Britaine are like the goodly and pleasant river Danubius which passing by many Countries keepeth his name till it enter into Illiricum where receiving into it sixty other rivers of divers other names leeseth not only his owne and all their other names of parts but is called Ister one for all containing all Here I require both of English and Scottish is either of them now as a people disjoynted one from the other Or as Sand without Lime Or scattered straw without binding Or as Sampsons Foxes running divers and contrary waies with fire brands of dissention among them Nay here in the glory of great Britaine is renowned that King Iames with our gracious King Charles and his Royall issue doe gather together that which was scattered and unite that which was divided and restore that which was lost and save that which was endangered even by this meanes uniting all in one name of Britaine as it was said of Rome uniting so many Countries into it selfe all parts which disagreed heretofore are now well agreeing Hereupon Rome was said to be anchora fluctuanti mundo and as he saith in Tacitus regna bellaque per Gallias semper fuere donec in nostrum jus concederetis So happily doth this universall conjunction of all under one head take away all discord and maintaine conjunction of love for everlasting continuance Only they which will be alone and not contained under one name of great Britaine are not bound up with the sheaves nor carried home into the Barne and therefore are like gleanings after harvest left behinde in the field subject to storme they come not two and two into this Arke and whatsoever remaineth alone Extra arcam perit Such are not unlike that Captaine whom Xerxes rewarded with a garland for escaping alive when all other souldiers were slaine and yet because he came alone without the rest he hanged him and as the the Athenians in the warre with the Aeginetae when one returned without his fellowes ranne upon him and killed him asking where were the rest And what can such I pray you as separate themselves from the happy union of all Britaines answer for themselves if they be called to account Can any be English and not Scottish can any be Scottish and not English Let that outcry against the Romans be ingeminated against such saying Quintilius Varus restore us our Legions where are our Souldiers what is become of them Where are the English where are the Scottish let all restore themselves and each one the other to the name of Britaines And so I say to all and every one of both nations Cedo alterum For I feare lest this name Cedo alterum mentioned in Taciâ—us be in scarely found among many but I call aloud where art thou Cedo alterum give us thy selfe bring in thy friend yea yet another and another bee not wanting to the weale publique una navis bonorum omnium all good Subjects are contained in one Ship of common Weal numeruÌ„ non habet illa suuÌ„ one is not perfit without the other for Britaines Subject ought maintaine mutuall society for common good As for others disclaiming us and disjoyning themselves only I wish they may all be of the same consort and society with us for victrix causa dii placuit though victa Catoni And albeit many great and mighty Potentates on earth make a great shew of Copia verborum by copious recitall of many Provinces and Kingdomes as if his Majesty should entitle himselfe by all the severall shires under his dominions and not by one honourable Title of great Britaine comprehending all to shew how this misliked some it is recorded when the Emperours Embassador comming to the French King rehearsed the Emperours stile at large which consisted of many dominions and names of countries the French King willed his Herauld to repeate and say over the name of France as many times as the other had rehearsed the severall titles of his Masters dominions intimating that one name of France well compacted and united of many particulars into one generall name was better then divers particular names of many countries And when Quintius Flaminius heard how his army was terrified at the recitall of many his enemies forces of their diversity of names of countries of Armour and of multitudes Dahae Medi Cadusij Elemei Cataphracti c. Spearemen Horsemen Footmen Archers c. Oh saith he what a doe is here with numbers and diversity of numbers all these are but onely Syrians and make a great shew like
to butt at and beate one the other where held both together in like yoke one cannot easily offend or force the other Sic enim immensa multitudo authoritatis quasi spiritu regitur And where it is of the nature of man not to endure all servitude nor all liberty but to strive to shake off the one and to be weary of the other it is certaine that equity and equability of like lawes to a divers people united in one will make them which otherwise feare servitude to enjoy freedome and those which seeme most free by former priviledges immunities to feare servitude if they transgresse their bounds for such Vnion and equity is communis custodia principatus reipublicae But faction and ambition are the father and mother of intestine calamity Civill war and deadly feud Who so loveth this will never like that neither is he of the body but of the toes and feet of that image which Nebuchadnesar dreamed of Dan. 2. whose head was of fine gold whose breast and armes of silver whose belly and thighes of brasse whose legs of Iron and whose feet part of Iron and part of Clay Silver Brasse and Iron are metals easily mixed but Iron and Clay will not by any meanes melt and joyne together Kingdomes divided are prefigured in the Iron and Clay they are partly warlike and well governed partly weak factious and seditious they agree not to the King their golden head and though they as the Text saith verse 43. mingle themselves with the seed of men yet joyn not one with another but are as Iron and Clay which will not be mixed together The Poets call this latter age Ferrea let us which live in it prove them Poets and not Prophets that so being joyned to our golden head in all obedience and duty in all love and zeale to our Countrie and in Vnitie among our selves God may still showre down his wonted favours upon Church and Common-wealth and that wee may still bee thankfull returning him the glory FINIS A SECOND PART to the precedent TREATISE THE State of England and Scotland may bee resembled to the condition of Israel and Iuda not only for emulation who have most right to the Royall person of the Kings Majesty for their defence and government but also for that the two kingdomes were at first both but one Besides God as he speaketh by his Prophet Hosea Chapter 11. did also at first alike leade both them and us With Cords of a man even with Bands of love And as it pleased God for sinne of people to breake those Bands even both the Staffe of bands and of beauty to dissolve the brotherhood of Israel and Iuda as saith the Prophet Zach. 11. so for the iniquity of our forefathers God brake the Staffe of bands signifying mutuall love and also Staffe of beauty signifying order of government and brought in upon them and upon their posterity even to these our later daies as Esay saith Chapter 9. A staffe of division and yoke of burden upon theirs and our shoulders which now for all that out of the riches of his mercy he hath also broken in pieces making all one againe as hee spake by his Prophet Ezekiel concerning Israel and Iuda Chapter 37. saying I will make them one people in the land upon the mountaines of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two peoples neither be divided any more henceforth into two Kingdomes This foundation laid as project of our whole purpose The truth sheweth it self how two kingdoms severed in place not much differing in lawes nor dissonant in language but only disagreeing heretofore in neighbourhood may be comprehended under notion of one name specially seeing when one ruleth both and both become Subject to one they are no more two but one body linked in like duty and knit together in one band of obedience To doubt this is in Strangers ignorance but in Subjects a great offence For who so considereth that many Shires with the principality of Wales heretofore made one England cannot but confesse that likewise England and Scotland with all their territories Islands Shires and Countries make now one great Britaine and all the people of both the mighty Nations Britaines and that the Kings Majesty hath done as princely an Act in uniting both the kingdomes into one name as he did in uniting the Armes of both the Realmes into one Scutchion having a like right in both For all great Britaine being his Majesties inheritance all his Subjects within that continent are Brittaines Iust and reasonable was the demand of Annius chiefe Governour of Latines in uniting Romanes and Latines saying Ex utraque gente unum oportet esse populum unam fieri rempub eandem imperiisedem idemque omnibus nomen And albeit the Latines were content for sake of Weale publike to prefer Romanes before themselves and be called by their names as the History there farther reporteth Quoniam ab alter utra parte concedi necesse est quod utrisque benè vertat sit haec sanè patria potior Romani omnes vocemur neverthelesse the case not standing so with us that Scottish should be called by our name nor we by theirs methinkes a third name of great Britaine might easily and equally please both otherwise as King Deiotarus cut off all his children saving one because he would leave the kingdome but to one so should English swallowing up name of Scottish or Scottish drowning name of English prove such a Vine which to bring but one grape to ripenesse is content that all branches be cut off but one But the question here is not which of the branches should best prosper but how all the branches may flourish which abide in the Vine and verily the question carrieth in it selfe his answer Abide in the Vine This Vine is but one though of many branches and much fruit And thankes be given to God that his Majesty K. Iames of blessed memory by publique Proclamation divulged the inserting and fast grafting of each branch and all fruit into his owne Royall person as into a fruitfull and flourishing Vine even into the head of the whole body of how many soever parts consisting Wherein his Highnesse laid the first stone as he was the true and only foundation of happy union and yet as yet like Apelles fashioning only the exquisite and most excellent beauty of Venus in the head but I hope also and will pray for perfection in the rest that the saying may be true Rex velit honesta nemo non eadem volet◠and that an universall union may be as happy in successu as it is most just by Proclamation in inceptu That the head going before the whole body may follow after in imitation to worke out perfection of the desired happy union That it may be verified quod diu parturivit tandem peperit and what God had in his providence long purposed is fulfilled
English fashion eveâ—â—gainst their former cuâ—tomes and conditions â—t is then a matter not only of utility and neâ—essity but also of reaâ—on and justice that a King in right of blood â—olding two Kingâ—omes or States doe â—nite contract them â—nto one name and naâ—ure specially Kingdomes of one continent and which in ancient times were but one till ambition and contention divided them And this maâ— stand for answer to the Objectors first main head of matter of Estaâ—â— inward Now where it is faâ—ther alleaged that the alteration of the namâ— of the King doth inâ—vitably and infalliblâ— draw on an erection oâ— a new Kingdome and dissolution and extinguishment of the olde herein verily I think the matter is much mistaken for the change oâ—â—â—me is not so rightly 〈◊〉 be tearmed alteration 〈◊〉 new erection as reâ—â—â—tution and reparation â—oth of name and hoâ—or for divers his â—ajesties most noble â—ogenitors have hereâ—â—fore been entituled as â—hronicles tell us â—â—ings of all Britaine as â—enry the second King 〈◊〉 all Britaine Duke of â—ascoine Guien and â—ormandy whose son â—â—hn had also in his â—oine stamped as is to be shewed Johanâ— Rex Britonum And before the conquest of tâ— Saxons it is certaiâ— that the whole I le wâ— called by the name 〈◊〉 Britain But Saxons eâ—tring at disadvantageâ— that mighty Natioâ— consumed by death aâ— famine conquering tâ— remnant of people of â—mous Britain enforcâ— them to distinguish aâ— divide themselves 〈◊〉 flying into mountain and fortified placâ—â—d afterward King â—bert utterly to roote â—t the remembrance 〈◊〉 great Britaine comâ—nded that the Land â—ould be called no â—ore by that name â—t England and the â—ople Englishmen â—t Egbert is dead his â—wer weake nay â—ne at all let none â—erefore feare to reâ—re his Country to 〈◊〉 olde name and anâ—nt honour for Egâ—rt I say is dead and King CHARLES â—veth Et vivat vinâ— Rex Carolus This I say and eâ—force againe is a matâ— also reasonable juâ—utile and necessary sâ—ing the Soveraign briâ—geth in no innovatioâ— of a new name but â—stitution of the old 〈◊〉 dissolution but fortiâ—cation whereto I knoâ— none will subscribâ— which either envy tâ— Kings greatnesse 〈◊〉 kingdomes happinessâ— But let none marâ—ll why it hath not â—is long time been reâ—uced into his former â—ame for the diversity â—f kingdomes being made divers by war â—nd conquest and haâ—ing heretofore divers â—ings could not in reaâ—on or justice endure it â—or under any colour of â—tility or necessity unâ—ergoe or conclude it But now seeing our soveraigne Lord the King being rightfully descended of all the Kings Princes whiâ— heretofore raigned aâ— ruled in England Scâ—land or Wales as 〈◊〉 only hath power to â—â—store all into one 〈◊〉 former title and digâ—ty so let none thinâ— this his Princely aâ— just pleasure a neâ— erection but restitutioâ— of olde where it is moâ— reasonable and just 〈◊〉 extinguish the name lesser continuance the the name which hâ—â—ntinued and been faâ—ous by the space of â—37 yeares before â—hrist and 688. after â—s Incarnation which â—hole computation â—ommeth to 1825 years â—nd where it is most â—onourable by just deâ—ent in right of blood â—ot only to change but 〈◊〉 abolish the name â—mposed by a Conâ—uerour to the dishoâ—our of a Nation â—nd where for â—ught I understand the matter is not so dâ—â—ficult nor of that incoâ—â—venience and dangeâ— but may with muâ— ease and safety be doâ— with salvo jure or othâ— reservation and explâ—â—nation as the wise anâ— learned in the lawâ— can at large devise when they list five noâ— excogitent sive antiqâ— restituant But for example 〈◊〉 bring the uniting 〈◊〉 Dane-Lex and Merciâ— Lex by Edward thâ—â—onfessor which was â—ot prejudiciall to any â—at ever I could reade â—ut profitable and â—eedfull to all in the â—olishing of divers old â—wes and ordaining â—vers new and maâ—ng Lawes to all all â—ne done no doubt with due respect to â—eale publike with â—eedfull limitation and â—ue consideration of â—en matter time place â—nd other circumstance Neither doth any new erection and extiâ—â—guishment of olde 〈◊〉 necessarily conclude 〈◊〉 convenience full of â—â—pugnancy danger 〈◊〉 construction and coâ—â—fusion as is pretendeâ— but may in this case 〈◊〉 beata omnium vita moâ—â—ratori est proposita as eâ—â—sily bee cleared and â—â—voided as it was whâ— the principality aâ— Country of Wales wâ— by Parliament incorpâ—â—rated and united unâ— the Kingdome of Enâ—â—â—nd and all the Inhaâ—â—tants thereof made â—â—uall in freedomes â—â—berties rights priviâ—â—dges lawes and in all â—â—her respects to the naâ—â—rall subjects of Engâ—â—nd and all inheritanâ—â—s made of English teâ—â—re to descend withâ—ut division or partitiâ—n after the manner of â—ngland and the â—awes Statutes and â—rdinances of the realm â—f England commanâ—ed to bee executed and put in practâ— within the country aâ— Principality of Walâ— So as now in this neâ— erection and dissoluâ—â—â—on of the old 〈◊〉 Welshmen with us aâ— we with them aâ—â—knowledge joyfullâ— one only Governoâ— and one only goverâ—ment where the mâ—â—jesty of the Governoâ— is equally supra nos aâ— the justice and equity 〈◊〉 the government equâ—ly pro nobis whereâ— â—ertus ordo in jubendo â—arendo Which certain â—nd the same course and â—rder of commanding â—y the King and by his Lawes and of obediâ—nce in subjects is a â—trong tye and as it were a vitall spirit â—olding in one infinite â—housands where Reâ—ere as the Philosopher speaketh is reckoned â—nter necessaria and Regi inter utilia Againe could seven kingdomes of Saxons bee reduced into one and in good time all their divers Lawes 〈◊〉 whereby the diversâ— subjects of those seveâ— divers kingdomes werâ— diversly governed beâ— brought into one formâ— of civill governmenâ— without repugnancy 〈◊〉 ambiguity or dangers and shall we thinke it 〈◊〉 matter of such difficulâ—ty to unite onely two kingdomes which doâ— not much differ in manners lawes and customes saving such laws customes as were formerly ordained on each part one against anoâ—her when they were enemies or scarce friends one to the other Which â—aws doubtlesse all will say must bee abrogated â—hat in further proceedâ—ng to union wise men with grave consideration may conclude it for good of both Nations without offeÌ„ce as in former times much more hath bin done with less 〈◊〉 doe An Empire of many kingdomes thus reduced into one is not unlike the Firmament oâ— heaven which God hath adorned with the two great lights the Sunne and Moone and other Starres even the whole army and haâ— mony of the heavens in one Firmament Whâ— so throweth a stonâ— against heaven saith the Wise man it will faâ— upon his owne head And if any one standing alone from the rest speaketh against and oppugneth this Vnion better it were saving my charity that Vnus ille periret quam Vnitas Touching the enumeration and recitall of the speciall or severall confusions incongruities
and mischiefes which in the Objections are in the second place of matter of Estate inward pretended I briefly answer that there is no feare of confusion in true and perfect Vnion Which thing the mighty Alexander renowned for fortitude and policy well knew who is much commended by Plutarke that where Zeno chiefe of Stoickes framed an Idea of best Common-wealth such as was not divided by countries and contrary customes but was as all one of one kinde of life and as one flocke feeding in one pasture under one shepheard Alexander I say put that in practise which Zeno but imagined for saith Plutarke not as Aristotle Alexanders Master taught him so did hee living as a father to the Grecians and cruell Commander over Barbarians respecting some and neglecting others but he reconciled all into one mixing mens lives lawes names and marriages together and perswading that none were Aliens and strangers among his subjects but such as were evill men accounting all good men as one man Now I conclude this point that there is no confusion incongruity or mischiefe to be feared in that Vnion where our most rightfull King sitteth not by conquest of sword but by right of royall blood in the seate of his most noble Progenitors and not as Alexander who by conquest sate in the seate of Darius among Persians nor as Xerxes who joyned Asia and Europa together with a woodden bridge over Hellespont but as all other most mighty Governours and the best kings have by a golden bridge of likenesse of love of equity of laws and of common comforts of society and joy all which were both profitable and needfull joyned together two or more kingdomes for their owne greater honor and subjects more undoubted happinesse Which thing likewise that noble and valiant Trojan Aeneas long sithence put in use who by Vnion even of divers nations Omnis eodem nomine eodem jure Latinos vocavit And thereby as Livie reporteth of him he made many and divers nations as one people most familiar and most friendly together Doe not divers Sun-beames come from one Sun and all they of one nature Are not divers lines drawne from one Center and all they of one fashion Are not divers boughes from one tree and all of the same substance And may not divers people under one Prince though they are divided in persons yet be united in Lawes and though they bee sundred in Countries yet be knit together in hearts specially if emulation cause no incongruity nor disorder confusion nor strife mischiefe only with saving each mans honor with continuance of each good custome and with furtherance and establishing the common good of weale publique The king is the countries Parent who by Vnion non servos sed cives cogitat and as Iupiter was said to be Rex omnibus idem so would his Majesty be idem omnibus one head to one body Wherefore if hee desire to unite the two kingdomes and to account them one and as one beloved sonne whose life is deare and whose happinesse joy to him that all subjects as one sonne in common apparant utility might participate common patrimony of just Lawes for Weale publike let none be so hardy with the harlot in the daies of Solomon to say to the King our common parent Divide the childe and cut it into two parts lest such division part that into two which God in nature first made one and now in his greater goodnesse hath restored in the royall person of our gracious King into one what God hath so joyned together let no man put asunder For hereof may arise plaine incongruity and fearefull inconvenience which may farther grow into confusion and mischief Only I pray them which object against the happy Vnion to set before their eyes and to consider with their hearts the grievous contention between the divers people of the kingdome of Israel and the kingdome of Iudah for albeit the two kingdomes were united in the person of David their king yet for want of more perfect Vnion in lawes and love there arose heart-burnings on both sides for Israel complained The men of Iuda have stolne the king from us and they of Iuda challenged that the king was nearer in blood to them than to Israel and Israel againe replyed that they had ten parts in the king and therefore had more right to him But what in the end grew of this contentioÌ„ emulation consider I pray and prevent such inconvenience and mischiefe there was not any one among the Tribes in the second generation that followed the house of David but Iuda only Omen avertas Deus When I was but a yong scholer I learned to call that aequivocation which was Corpuâ— monstrosum under one name of divers formes as homo pictus and homo vivus agree in the name of man but not in the same reason definition and nature so I can call the agreement of English and Scottish only in subjection to one Soveraigne but without farther Vnion of lawes and true love not lively and indeed but painted and in shew not substantiall â—ut aequivocall not reâ—ll but nominall nameâ—y in the King as in the head which is but one â—ut not in themselves â—s in the body which â—ikewise is or should be â—ut one This is true inâ—ongruity wherof may â—rise such farther fearefull inconvenience as I wish may bee to them â—hat hate the State and the experience thereof â—nto the K. enemies Touching the particulars of confusion c surmised by the Objeâ—ctors I briefly answer first that exception taken of summoning future Parliament is no worth answer for the stile and title of the kinâ— changed may changâ— also in future Writs Secondly the changâ—ing of the Seale is only charge of a new cut Thirdly the great old Officers of the kingdome when they yeâ— most worthy of office â—oe hereafter weare â—ut the kings Majesty â—hall afterward by this Vnion have more â—hoice to prefer the worthiest for his Maâ—esty by this Vnion shall â—gaine more choice for â—ll the publike services â—o be performed either at home or abroad Neither may it be reasonable for any man for private or particular respects to repine thereat like to Cato his son who feared lest by his fathers marriage hâ— might leese somewhaâ— of his patrimony and therefore murmured lest his father should beget more sons buâ— had his answer with a sound reply unanswerable Son I desire to have more sons like thy selfe good Citizens and serviceable for the Common weale Fourthly touching lawes customes liberties and priviledges â—t is to be wished that the rigour of ours were somewhat qualified â—nd the liberty of theirs â—omewhat restrained â—either is it a new â—hing in so large a â—ingdome that some should be more enabled and honoured with priviledges than others according to the Kings good pleasure â—n whom dwelleth â—nd from whom is deâ—ived all true honour Fifthly the feare of residence or holding in Scotland such Courts as follow the Kings person
one with our selves And herein consisteth the nature of true mixtion whereat all Common weales should tend when every thing remaineth that was yet nothing as it was when many contrary things yeeld up their contrariety and plurality unto one consisting of all which participating of all their reconciled natures imposeth only a new name to their new manner of being which is to be one instead of many and that not by coacervation or apposition of things without farther mixtion remaining still distinct within themselves but by union of consociation which taketh nothing away from these things that were before distinct but their distinction Out of which mistion will arise excellent temperature which we hope long to see in our Brittish Common-Weale wherein no humour either of English or Scottish may be predominant but temperamentum aequabile and that ad pondus too Which as it is seldome found anywhere so it is alwaies found where it is found with perennity And concerning such mistion was that said of Romulus and Trajanus and now may it be said of King Iames and King Charles Diversas gentes ita commercio miscuit ut quod genitum esset usquam id apud omnes natum esse videretur And of such mixtion may that of Zeno be said alterius chorus major meus antem concinnior Another Kings Empire may be greater consisting of diversity of Nations but ours more compact and united in one And this mixtion of both our nations so mixed in one bringeth forth but one title of GREAT BRITAINE Vnum sed leonem as the proverb saith Which I the rather urge here against Polititians if any such be of this age who seeke to nourish faction and opposition in the State and Common-Weale and think nothing better Quam si in commune non consulant who ever have a Rowland for an Oliver where fearefull experience doth often shew the fruits of that Axiom Contraria contrariis curatur Which manner of keeping Subjects one opposite and offensive to the other is a flinty and fiery society even Societas lapidum fornicationi similima quae casura nisi invicem obstarent hoc enim ipso continetur And this practise wheresoever prevaileing is more then Machivelian even devillish sowing seed of dissention in parts to destroy the whole Therefore it being an infallible but woefull ground of truth Nulla salus bello It is meete that all and every Subject of great Britaine understand and professe the other part of that Verse Pacem te poscimus omnes For so I thinke this Axiome in a State is better for preservation of Weale publique Similima similimus nutriuntur And if I were worthy here would I advise all the Magistrates of great Britaine which either now do or hereafter shall beare rule under their high Soveraigne in any parts of his dominions to remember in all their high honours that Cleo and Themistocles tooke contrary courses and were both misliked in time of their Magistracy For Cleo called all his friends and old acquaintance together and renounced them openly giving them to understand that now he was so advanced they should expect nothing from him for former friendships sake And Themistocles answered one wishing him to be alike to all and not partiall that he would not sit in seate of honour and not doe more good to former friends than to others But truth is in a Common-wealth nor disdaine of former friends becommeth Cleo nor partiall favours Themistocles for community regardeth neither any man neither any cause for private respects but is as the Sun yeelding alike common comfort to all which thing I wish all as one man wisely to perceive and willingly performe And yet may Cyrus have in remembrance the very meanest of them with whom sometimes he lived And Ahasuerus looking into the Chronicles may remember those which have saved the King from any who sought to lay violent hands upon him And the Macedonians may not either grudge or disdaine that Alexander prefer the Persians before them of his owne Countrey Ecquis est qui vestra necessaria suffragia pro voluntariis serva pro liberis faciat But to returne into the Kings high way for the name of Britaine seeing his Majesty may say Non me Troja capit Scotland alone doth not containe my greatnesse and therefore speaketh also to England Salve fatis mihi debita tellus England is also the lot of mine inheritance and both England and Scotland will I make one Empire and renew their names into the first title of great Britaine as it were Ilium in Italiam portans though in removing all the gods out of the Temple to give place to Iupiter only that petty god Terminus refused and would not move yet let the Termini and bounds of both our Nations and all the people therein contained willingly give place to the just pleasure of their sole Monarch and even in this also acknowledge K. Charles their supreame head and governour where obedience in each Subject is like the reconciled Genius utriusque regni which though before was as angry Iuno much adverse to the Romanes yet now like Iuno out of her very image seemeth to speake aloud Romam se velle ire Anger is appeased displeasure forgotten and discord come to a perpetuall end Nec quenquam incuso potuit quae plurima virtus Esse fuit toto certatum est corpore regni And now the whole common-weale odiis saturata quiescit Neither may contention either of antiquity or any other dignity whereabout Albanes and Romanes so much contended and would not yeeld one to the other breake this common band of love among our selves or loyalty to our Soveraigne who imbraceth both Nations with equall and indifferent love But we ought to consider that both English and Scottish quis major aeque ambo pares making no question of difference for common goods sake without difference may challenge like interest in his Majesties favour Et vitula tu dignus hic to bee divided equally and graciously among all by Geometricall proportion as his Majesty shall be pleased to deeme meet Which thing may move all to mutuall kindnesse and reciprocate love one towards the other with an orderly conformity of both to live together in all peace and Christian charity affectioned to love one another with brotherly love and in giving honour to go one before the other Rom. 12. as it is said of Scipio and Lelius actuosae vitae iter aequali gradu exequebantur not grudgingly nor contentiously striving for prerogative of blessing and birth-right in his Majesties favour as if it might be said to his highnesse Hast thou but one blessing my father Gen. 27. for his Majesties abundance and overflowing measure of honour poureth forth as out of a fountain streames to fill up every empty channell Nemo ex hoc numero mihi non donatus abibit and where every one may be contented Cuncta aderunt animus si te non deficit aequus Herein let us
together that though there appeare among them and their distinct publique services as in digitis divisio it shall not be ab unitate praecisio And verily the two kingdomes are like two hands warming and enfolding each other continuing two yet in one body where if the right hand challenge more necessary use and service in the body then the left or the left hand more than the right and one not readily yeeld to joyne with the other as is meete the head may in his good pleasure make choice and use of either as in the Romane Story when Tribunes disagreed for chiefest honour Quintus Servilius Consul of much lesse dignity and authority than a King tooke the matter into his owne hands saying Patria Majestas altercationem istam dirimet Here Prudence among Subjects hath need intermeddle with all other vertues and shew the power of union in her selfe where Justice demandeth right fortitude tollerateth what ought be borne temperance reformeth will subdueth anger moderateth passion and represseth ambition and all in unity of obedience coupled together bring forth plentifull fruit for society honour and joy Which thing well pleased Marcus Furius Camillus Dictator of Rome seeing all the Senate and Subjects of Rome not only accord in the common execution of each office for common good of all but willingly and lovingly both highest and meanest to embrace one the other saying that the Common-Weale was flourishing and most happy Si tales viros in magistratu habeat tam concordibus junctos animis parere atque imperare juxta paratos laudemque conferentes potius in medium quam ex communi ad se trahentes whereof the Senate Consuls and Tribunes gave testimony and good proofe when they all submitted all authority to Camillus perswaded in themselves Nec quicquam de majestate sua detractum quod majastati ejus viri concessissent In Britaines union England may not exalt it selfe above Scotland nor Scotland strive against England but both as members of one and the same body under one and the same head ought to have the same care one for the other as if one member suffer all suffer with it and if one be honoured all the members rejoyce with it and as in the Church so in the common-Weale one is my Dove one is my darling shee is the only beloved of her mother and deer to her that bare her so I know there are diversities of gifts and differences of administrations and divers manners of operations in both and God hath set the members of the whole body every one of them severall in the body as it hath pleased him but omnia ab uno ad unum All from one head and to one end Hee that is wise will consider this Qui vero curiosiores sunt quam capatiores quaedam magâ—is contentiose objectanda quam prudenter consideranda esse arbitrantur And now seeing I have waded so far in the union of Britaines English may not mislike that Scottish beare Office among and with them as if they were of a farre Countrey hunting after others Treasures serving the King of Babylon and not as the same Subjects to Hezechias for they are of and for England as we and we of and for Scotland as they and both for both being made one Nay rather we ought desire their society and rejoyce in this community setting before our eyes for example that saying of Austin of the communion of Saints made fellow heires with Christ through the mercy of our good God Deus cum baberet unicum noluit esse unum sed habere fratres And if in humane matters humane examples more move remembring that Scipeo was as glad of his brothers preferment as of his owne and that Castor would not be a god without his brother Pollux but would be only Semideus that his brother might partake with him as is well said Habent oculi in corpore magnum honorem sed minorem haberent si soli essent In the time of Claudius the Emperour when it was consulted that the Senate should bee supplyed with more Senators the Peeres and Nobles of France long before enfranchised free denizens of Rome sought also to participate in honours magistracies and dignities with Romanes and the matter being handled on both sides with great consideration the Romanes alleadged against the French that Italy wanted no sufficient men within it selfe for it selfe And that there was no reason to incorporate others with them who had beene at so deadly hatred and bloody warres against them What no private men not the common People not Strangers but enemies taken into the Senate Was it not counted for a wonder that the Athenians did take onely Anacharsis into their City Would the Lacedemonians admit the Tyrrheni to participate in their honors though they had done them service And had their mothers also Athenian women But the good Emperour replying said to the Senators that he would assume into the Senate of all his Subjects such as he found most worthy of what Countrey soever alledging that his owne Ancestors were descended from the Sabins and made of Nobility and Senate of Rome and that the Iulij were taken from Alba Coruncani from Camerium the Porcij from Tusculum Etruria and Lucania and from all parts of Italy chosen into the Senate And that by this meanes Italy was extended and greatly enlarged so as not onely the people but all their possessions had their dependance upon the state of Rome and grew into one Nation and people of Rome And that a setled state chiefly flourished when the people inhabiting even beyond the River Padus were received into the community of Romane Citizens And lastly that nothing was more hurtfull to the Lacedemonians and Athenians then refusall to encrease the common-weale by accesse of new and other people What Shall not they be admitted because they and Romanes have had deadly feud one against another So the Aequi so the Volsci And yet are now all one and the same people of Rome This forcible speech pierced their hearts and prevailed so as that all submitted their judgement to the Emperours wisedome Which thing I thought good here to remember not forgetting also what Anna said to Dido Quam tu urbem soror hanc cernes quae surgere regna Connubio tali Troum Comitantibus armis Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus Which if we consider as we should wee cannot then but ingenuously acknowledge that good and praise-worthy was the speech of Paedaretus who uederstanding he was not chosen into the number of the Trecenti who chiefly bare rule said he did glory there were so many his betters in the Common-weale And no lesse commendable was his saying who wished hee could raise froÌ„ the dead many moe such excellent Citizens as Quintus Fabius well advertised Titus Octacilius Nec tu id indignari possis aliquem in civitate Romana meliorem haberi quam te Doubtlesse the Common-Weale is more happy and doth there